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The Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) is the leading professional organization for CDI specialists. Members share field-tested advice, tools, and strategies with their CDI colleagues.

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Some hospitals may be referring patients too quickly to post-acute facilities—which is reducing their average length of stay but negatively affecting their readmission rates, according to a February 2016 study published in the American Publich Health Association's journal.

Researchers looked at data from 217 hospitals in 39 different states. The analysis included information on more than 112,000 patients from the national surgery registry, Medicare claims, and the American Hospital Association annual surveys between 2005 and 2008.

Q: Our utilization review (UR) team is researching new database solutions for our electronic documents, as well as the remaining paper documents. How can we determine what solutions will best meet our needs?

Patients with a long length of stay can be a challenge for case managers. The goal of case managers is to ensure that care for these patients is efficient and smooth, but sometimes there are some pretty big barriers in the way of a smooth discharge to the next level of care.

While the quality of care you get still very much depends on what state you live in, the good news is healthcare in most states improved from 2013 to 2014, according to the fourth Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Health System Performance.

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